Don Ivan de Mendoza y de la Luna, Marques de Montesclaros el Decimo Bizorrey · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Don Ivan de Mendoza y de la Luna, Marques de Montesclaros el Decimo Bizorrey
Subject: Viceroys; Conquest; Colonialism; Marquis; Government; Don Juan de Mendoza
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Lima; South America; West Indies; Peru
Description: This image depicts the tenth Spanish viceroy of Peru, Don Juan de Mendoza y Luna. He is illustrated wearing traditional European/Castilian clothing with a hat, a cape, and ruffled trousers. The caption written by his feet identifies the location as it reads, en lima [in Lima]. The large caption at the bottom of the image reads, don juan de mendoza y de la luna, marques de montescl[aros], gouerno desde decienbre de mill y seycientos y ciete que [...] y gouerno hasta el ano de mill y cseycientos y quinze a[nos] en tienpo del rrey felipo el tersero [Don Juan de Mendoza y de la Luna, Marquis of Montesclaros, governed this kingdom from December 1607 until the year 1615 in the time of King Philip III].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23206
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Image: mta_23206_OBJ.jpg